Forest Park loop WHOOP!!!!

RUN 7 miles in 1:09:36 for a 9:57m/m pace

Yup, I just undid my usual rounding up so that I could report a sub 10 time :)

And yup, I hurt. I didn't run this morning as planned due to cold, dark, rainy, and painy. All of yesterday's pains still there. But I wanted to run, kept thinking on it, planning it, so I packed run clothes in my bag and drove off to work. Temps were forecasted to peak at 55F then drop out to 11F overnight. 55 sounds so nice!

At work I don't have terribly much to do, so I keep thinking on the run. I could loop the park, I could run out as far as I felt good then come back, I could just run half a mile and see how it goes then be able to say that I ran. I for some reason needed to do this run.

Around noon I note that the temps never did get over 35F (I barely have enough clothes for this), the winds are expected to get cold and gusty by 1pm, so if I'm gonna go I gotta go now.

This after whining about how much my rib hurt to coworkers. It hurts, but not that bad. Right?

I start out taking the hilly side first to break up the headwind. At a few points it snowed. I took the hills easy (easier, I guess). My left foot injury hurts, I'm getting convinced that I probably have a stress fracture, it's not improving over the past week since it started. My back is tight but OK. My rib, well I ignored that and it wasn't hard to do really. My hip only hurt if I touched it, so that's easy. And that pea-sized pebble in my right IT-band didn't hurt at all.

If anything, my left foot was my primary complaint. 3 miles at Skinker, as per goal I took the "group run" route and climbed the hill. Breezed down as much as my foot allowed and hit my fastest mile at 9:17 in this range. This northern section was the windiest and coldest and I was looking forward to turning east for the tailwind. I thought I'd warm up here, but didn't really. The temps were noticeably dropping, the snow was enough that I had to remove my sunglasses, and my feet were wet from the flooded trails. I had a few opportunities to cut shorter -- up the hill to finish on Euclid, up the skating rink hill to skip the Clayton section, but I took it all and wanted it all. So much that I looped Smoker's Park until I rounded up to 7 miles. This is my long run goal for this week!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYA!!

But not sitting here later I'm hurting (rib and foot) and I still gotta walk out to the truck in the cold (now 27F) into the headwind to get home to see if the dog managed to lickety-lick her foot into a bloody mess. At least I limited her to first floor and no furniture, so the mess if any would be minimized. Right?

Earlier mom and sis were asking how I'm doing after the fall. Dad even called last night. SO told me to take the day off. So either I'm too dramatic in reporting what's happening or nobody trusts me to make good decisions (I can't disagree with that assessment....), and as mom said today about my "the rib is not broken" comment --is this the Queen of Denial talking?